Canada, China, Others Again Listed As IP Piracy Havens

Law360, New York (May 20, 2010, 4:35 PM EDT) -- For the second consecutive year, Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain constitute the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus' watch list, with U.S. lawmakers finding that the countries have made no meaningful progress to enforce intellectual property rights.

The U.S. is the largest creator, producer and exporter of copyrighted material, yet global piracy cost the domestic industry more than $25 billion in 2009, the caucus said.

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